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First photo: Wailuku’s Fanueli Fifita does an incline press with a pair of 60-pound dumbbells at the Maui Family YMCA Tuesday afternoon in Kahului. “Just trying to keep in shape during COVID,” Fifita said. New rules that went into effect on Tuesday limit business capacity to 30 percent and require gyms, yoga studios and similar fitness venues to ensure participants wear masks at all times, whether indoor or outdoor.
Second photo: Les Totah of Wailuku runs on a treadmill Tuesday at the Maui Family YMCA. Totah said a personalized training routine designed by YMCA Community Health Director Seth Abdallah helps him maintain his strength, balance and autonomy. “They saved my life,” Totah said. “They have improved my health and certainly have extended my life.” He said wearing a mask while working out was not an imposition. “The main thing we want is people to be safe.”
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Maui Health System nurses Sloan Ponte (from left), Taryn Pacheco, Kiki Quarry and Katie Talbot flex for the cameras after being four of the first frontline staffers vaccinated for COVID-19 on Wednesday morning at the hospital. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photos
WAILUKU Hailed as history in the making, the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine were administered Wednesday to hundreds of Maui County frontline health care workers and first responders, with many citing community service as the reason they volunteered.
Officials said 270 Maui Health System staff received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at Maui Memorial Medical Center in Wailuku. Another 215 police, fire and American Medical Response workers took the Moderna vaccine at University of Hawaii Maui College in Kahului.